Filipino in Periodismo: Analyzing the Common Practices of Tabloid Writers in News Writing Using Filipino Language

This study is about the Filipino language in field of journalism. The issue spelling and guidelines writing poses a great challenge to National Language, which why this focuses on news articles tabloids. Using Structuralism Formalism concepts, 60 from six (6) tabloids were analyzed based set Manwal sa Masinop na Pagsulat (MMP) (Manual Proper Writing) by Commission Language (Komisyon Wikang (KWF)) determine techniques used tabloid articles. In order achieve main objective paper, researcher considered these steps: first, through coding analysis existing MMP; second, organized coded data according MMP rules; lastly, journalists interviewed foundations their practices using when researcher's analysis, it was found that almost all corpora conform recommended KWF's MMP. Although there are some words do not fully guidelines, particularly those related consonant clusters, substitution E with I, O U, use hyphens. interviews conducted, revealed bases readers' knowledge familiarity selecting words. Even editors still have final decision whether or accept selected spellings After getting result, writers should follow promote uniformity standardization Filipino. way, readers, especially students, will better understanding proper